> Would this sufficient? Are there any drawbacks or giant gaping holes? > I'm anticipating that I'd also need to block 'exec' and 'eval' to > prevent an import from being obfuscated past the pre-parse. > > Or is this a hopeless cause?
Yes. There have been numerous discussions about this, and there are so many different ways to overcome such imposed limitations - it won't work. > > Finally, either way, would anyone recommend a different script engine > that might be more suitable for what I'm trying to accomplish that I > might not have looked at. I don't need much; it needs to work with C#, > and be able to easily interact with 'published' interface. I'd also like > to leverage a "popular" language instead of something obscure. Maybe LUA? I only heard that it's well suited for such tasks. The overall question for me is: Why crippled acess at all? What do you fear your users could do that harms you or others? There are of coures valid reasons, I don't question that generally. E.g. applets and the like. So what is the actual usecase? Regards, Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list